Chapter 170 Coincidence
"Deputy Envoy Chen, our Jiangdu Army took the initiative to come north to help you. Now the main force of the traitor has been restrained by us on the north bank of the Huai River, but you are still in the Suyu here. Is it too... too unethical? Please, Deputy Envoy Chen, please send troops south to help our army attack Du Fuwei and Li Zitong's thieves."
"Please report to the Chief Wang Junzhu for his initiative to help him..., cough cough, I am very sincerely thanked him on behalf of Ambassador Zhang Xutuo, the soldiers of Qiao County and the soldiers of the 12 counties of Henan Province. I would like to report to the Chief Wang Junzhu, not that I don't want to send troops immediately, but I want to fly to the Huai River battlefield immediately, and fight with Du Fuwei and Li Zitong two thieves..., cough cough, but you have also seen that my illness has become like this. I am really powerless. Please report to the Chief Wang Junzhu, as long as my condition can be cured slightly, I will send troops immediately, and I will send troops immediately, cough cough cough cough..."
"Uncle Chen, uncle, he heard that you are in a serious condition. He specially ordered his nephew Wang Xingben to bring a doctor to treat you."
"Doctor, how about it? Is my illness still cured?"
"Second envoy, forgive the incompetent people. Your pulse is intermittent, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and your condition is very strange. The incompetent people are unfamiliar with talent and knowledge, so they dare not make a diagnosis. They can only prescribe two doses of prescriptions first, and give you some care to see the effect later."
"Thank you, doctor, my nephew, please report back to Brother Wang Shi, and please rest assured that as long as my condition improves slightly, I can ride a horse or walk the road, I will send troops immediately. Even if I die, I will die on the battlefield of counter-rebellion."
"How can I make my pulse so weird? It's simple, just find a hard thing to put it under my armpit."
From the above content, we can see what happened to Wang Shichong's captain Chen Yingliang. In short, no matter how Wang Shichong urged, tempted, or even forced him, Chen Yingliang was reluctant to move under Suyu City. When Wang Shichong's envoy came to ask for a visit, Chen Yingliang lay in the ward full of medicine and dying, and his condition was so heavy that it seemed that he might die at any time. As soon as Wang Shichong left, Chen Yingliang appeared in the military camp or on the school grounds. He also rarely practiced riding, martial arts and archery skills, and tried to improve his pitifully low martial arts value.
Of course, it is not that no one accused Chen Yingliang of doing this for being improper. Chen Yingliang sneered and replied: "Doethic? Talent and Wang Shichong, who burys tens of thousands of people alive? Do you believe it or not? If Du Fuwei and Li Zitong came to Suyu to find trouble for us and forced us to ask for help from Wang Shichong, then don't say that they are brothers and brothers. Even if I worship him, Wang Shichong, he will not send out a soldier to share the pressure for us. Without waiting for us to fight against the thieves, both sides will be injured. He, Wang Shichong, would not even look at Suyu's battlefield."
Some people are also worried about the consequences of Chen Yingliang's actions, saying that if Wang Shichong is persevering, the self-army will face the threat of Du Fuwei and Li Zitong alone. Chen Yingliang smiled even happier and said, "You underestimate Wang Shichong too much. It's not that he can't deal with Du Fuwei and Li Zitong. With his strength, even if he can't win Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, he will definitely not suffer too much. He just doesn't want to pay too much for this battle. He doesn't want to make the army suffer heavy casualties, and I don't want to, so let's just waste it, see who can consume it."
As Chen Yingliang analyzed, if Wang Shichong on the Huai River battlefield adopts a strategy of decisive battle, he is really not sure to defeat Du Fuwei and Li Zitong's coalition forces, but he is destined to pay a huge price. As a future warlord and hero in troubled times, Wang Shichong knows the importance of the direct army better than anyone else. This time, the so-called northbound assistance to suppress the suppression took the initiative to lend a helping hand to Chen Yingliang. Wang Shichong's purpose was to let the army find something to do, so as not to be idle for too long and be disbanded by the court. He was ordered to be dismissed by the court, and the head-on battle with the main force of the rioters was really good. He suffered heavy casualties and was used as a stepping stone for Chen Yingliang to promote and make money. He was unwilling to do such a foolish thing.
But he had to do it even if he didn't want to do it. The masters in the rioters also saw through Wang Shichong's intention to preserve his strength and suggested that Du Fuwei and Li Zitong seize this weakness and chased and attacked Wang Shichong's camp every day. However, because the camp was not stable enough, Wang Shichong could only send troops to fight every time, and he had to work hard to repel the attack of the thieves. Because Du Fuwei and Li Zitong agreed to join forces to attack, they had to fight twice a day. As a result, although the Jiangdu army, which had a certain advantage in equipment training, had a small advantage, Wang Shichong still paid a considerable price for this. In just six or seven days of battle, thousands of Wang Shichong's direct descendants were killed or seriously injured and disabled.
At this point, Wang Shichong had few choices except for having to fight head-on. First, he quickly pulled Chen Yingliang into the battlefield and attacked the main force of the bandit army forward and backward; second, retreated across the Huaihe River to avoid the enemy's edge and defended according to the natural danger of the Huaihe River; third, he was to win by surprise and defeat the enemy by tricks. However, Chen Yingliang pretended to be sick and did not send troops. If he retreated across the Huaihe River, he would definitely be attacked by the main force of the bandit army halfway, and the casualties were destined to be even greater. Wang Shichong actually only had two options: a head-on decisive battle and a surprise victory. Apart from this, there was no other way.
Like Chen Yingliang, who was born bad, the treacherous and sloppy Wang Shichong also discovered the weakness of the thief army joining forces to distrust each other. He also had the idea of a alliance between Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, but unlike Chen Yingliang, Wang Shichong's reputation in Xinyi is really too bad, and it can be regarded as a stinking ten miles against the wind. In front of the big Buddha of Tongxuan Temple, he vowed to surrender and not kill him, but buried all more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers alive. It was still so vigorous. Even if Du Fuwei and Li Zitong were cerebral palsy and dementia, they would not believe anything about Wang Shichong. Without this prerequisite, what would Wang Shichong use to win the trust of the enemy and take the opportunity to provoke the discord?
"Why not let the little thief Chen Yingliang come forward and use a plan to discord?"
After racking his brains, Wang Shichong suddenly came up with an idea that was very talented and feasible, and immediately slapped the table and said, "Why did I never think about using Chen Yingliang's little thieves to provoke discord? It made Du Li and the two thieves suspicious of each other, and even turned against each other and became enemies and flirted with each other."
"Let Chen Yingliang get a thief to get in trouble?" The important civil and military officials of the Jiangdu Army, who were basically composed of members of the Wang family, looked at each other in front of him.
"To ask Chen Yingliang to use a plan of divisiveness," Wang Shichong was so excited that Yu Qian stood up and said loudly: "Although Chen Yingliang is a treacherous and despicable little thief, he is good at concealing and showing off his hypocritical appearance. He has a very good reputation among the people. After he surrendered the treacherous Miao Haichao, Miao Haichao was not only not executed, but also became a success and entered the Left Imperial Guard as the general of Zhechong Lang. With such a precedent, Chen Yingliang came forward to contact the treacherous thief, of course it is easy to gain the trust of the treacherous thief, and then took the opportunity to use a plan to disagree, so that Du Fuwei and Li Zitong became enemies, creating a favorable opportunity for us to win a battle."
"Uncle, Chen Yingliang's little thief Chen Yingliang is treacherous, shameless, sinister and despicable. Will he help us?" Wang Renze asked worriedly.
"He may not help other things, but he should help this." Wang Shichong replied: "He doesn't need to lose one soldier or another. He can also easily pick up the cheap one after we defeated the two thieves Du Li. He should not miss such a good thing that is beneficial but not harmful."
When Wang Renze and other members of the Wang family were overjoyed, they quickly urged Wang Shichong to act according to the plan so as not to be forced to fight attrition with the thief army every day. Wang Shichong did not hesitate. While thinking about how to use the plan to disagree, he picked up the pen and wrote a letter himself, but only wrote one beginning. Wang Shichong felt aroused in his heart, but put down his brush and frowned and said, "No, I can't write a letter to the thief."
"Why?" Everyone in the Wang family was stunned and asked hurriedly: "Is this plan not working?"
"It's not that this plan doesn't work. I can be sure that this plan is feasible. I'm just worried that Chen Yingliang's little thief will take the opportunity to play tricks." Wang Shichong frowned even more, and he analyzed by his own judgment: "Last time I pretended to surrender and used the messenger to insult him. Although Chen Xiaozhe didn't pursue it, he must still hold a grudge in his heart. It's hard to guarantee that he won't take the opportunity to retaliate. If this is the case, then our troubles will only be greater."
"But father, you just said that it will be beneficial to him if we do this?" Wang Shichong's eldest son Wang Xuanying asked in surprise.
"But letting us fight both sides of the thief army suffer a loss, which will be more beneficial to him. At that time, not only will the credit and spoils be all his, but we will also be severely damaged and will never have the power to threaten and retaliate against him."
Wang Shichong answered viciously and said with a cold expression: "If I and Chen Yingliang's situation are reversed, Chen Yingliang wrote a letter to ask me to use a divisive plan. I will definitely send Chen Xiaozhe's letter to Du Fuwei and Li Zitong immediately to help Chen Xiaozhe completely anger these two thieves. If Chen Xiaozhe gave my letter to Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, then we can only stay with the main force of the thief army."
Hearing Wang Shichong's words, everyone in the Wang family nodded, all of whom felt that Chen Yingliang would definitely do this - after all, they were all Wang Shichong's blood relatives, and they judged others by themselves. Naturally, they felt that such an analysis was reasonable.
After nodding in agreement, the Wang family quickly asked whether they would give up the plan of separation? Wang Shichong pondered for a moment and suddenly asked Wang Renze: "Nephew Renze, if I remember correctly, when you introduced the situation in Chen Yingliang's army last time, you once said that Chen Yingliang was only eighteen years old this year, and his military was quite strict. There was not even a female singer in the army?"
"No," Wang Renze nodded and replied, "I heard from the soldiers of Qiao County that even if the thief Chen Yingliang robbed his female relatives or saved the plundered women in the thief army, he would immediately return to his hometown. The homeless people used the lottery to assign them to the soldiers in the army as their wives, and never left them to enjoy themselves, so they were very popular with the army.
"Very good." Wang Shi nodded with sincerity, and suddenly turned to his eldest son Wang Xuanying and ordered: "Xuanying, take your sister to Suyu on the water route, and ask Chen Yingliang to help us use a trick to alienate the two thieves Du Li."
"Father, why should I bring my younger sister with me?" Wang Xuanying asked in surprise.
"Just do as you do, I'll tell you the reason later." Wang Shichong replied with a cold expression.
Almost at the same time, outside Suyu City, Chen Yingliang was also studying the military situation on the Huaihe battlefield in the Sui Army in Qiao County. Judging from the information collected through various channels, Chen Yingliang found that he had also underestimated Wang Shichong's patience and forbearance. In the case of unstable establishment of the camp, Wang Shichong had not launched a decisive battle to preserve his strength. He would rather build fortifications while defending against the enemy's attack than take the risk of fighting to the death with the main force of the thief army, and said that he would not give him a chance to reap profits in any way. In this battle, there is still no conclusion on who he and Wang Shichong can laugh to the end.
After secretly admiring Wang Shichong as a hero in troubled times, Chen Yingliang focused his attention on Du Li's coalition, and was surprised to find that the main force of the bandit army did not seem to have a plan to fight in a full-scale decisive battle. Although he sent troops to attack the camp every day and fought fiercely with Wang Shichong, the troops he dispatched were only a thousand. He never used the numerical advantage to launch a full-scale attack on Wang Shichong, who had an unstable foothold. He seemed to have the intention to preserve his strength. He realized this and Chen Yingliang couldn't help but sneer: "Du Fuwei either became smarter or had a master around him. He actually saw through Wang Shichong's intention to preserve his strength, and wanted to force Wang Shichong to retreat to the Huaihe River, and then attack halfway, and win easily."
"What does the deputy envoy mean?" Yuan Tiangang asked curiously.
"It's hard to say clearly in one sentence." Chen Yingliang replied casually: "In short, Du Fuwei and Li Zitong are also scammers. They don't want to fight head-on with Wang Shichong to hurt their vitality. They just want to force Wang Shichong across the Huaihe River and then win the greatest victory at the lowest price. So although the main force of the thief army and Wang Shichong are fighting every day on the surface, in fact, both sides are competing for patience, and they want to wait for the other party to reveal their flaws to win with cleverness, and they don't want to fight to the death with dignity."
"So, who is sure to win?" Yuan Tiangang asked again.
"It's not obvious yet, but Wang Shichong's winning odds are greater." Chen Yingliang replied: "There are too many internal problems in the rioters' coalition. Wang Shichong can win a great victory as long as he seizes an opportunity. He is patient. Du Fuwei and Li Zitong are not opponents of the old fox Wang Shichong. If he continues to consume, he may be consumed to death by Wang Shichong."
"Isn't it good to be exhausted by Wang Shichong?" Yuan Tiangang said relaxedly: "We don't have to fight hard, just let Wang Shichong destroy the two big thieves, Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, for us. Isn't it good?"
"What should we do with our credit and spoils?" Chen Yingliang sneered: "Will all be in vain Wang Shichong? When he gets promoted and gets rich, we will have more trouble in the future."
"What should I do?" Wei Zheng asked, "Does the deputy envoy want to send troops to help Wang Shichong? Resolve the accumulated grievances and share the credit at the same time?"
"It's not time to send troops." Chen Yingliang replied: "The best time for our troops is to wait until the main force of the bandit army and Wang Shichong are both defeated. At least we have to wait until the main force of the bandit army and Wang Shichong fight a serious decisive battle. Then we can send troops again and easily get the best interests."
"Although the ideal of the deputy envoy is good, Wang Shichong and the main force of the thief army insist on refusing to fight to the decisive battle, what can we do?" Wei Zheng asked, and even joked very rarely, saying: "We can't send people to Du Fuwei and Wang Shichong, please fight a decisive battle that is both defeated, so that our Qiao County army can hide behind us and pick up the cheap."
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